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The Watts uprising of '65 turned the police into killers... a community into ashes... and a young black journalist into a hero.
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
TV MovieDramaHistory 100 min
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Cast
- Cicely Tyson as Ruthana Richardson
- Blair Underwood as Bob Richardson
- Sally Kirkland as Mrs. Canfield
- James Earl Jones as Junius Johnson
- Margaret Avery as Roxie Turpin